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Erik Renssen, Woman writing a letter, 2018, renssenartgalley.com

Shreya Sen-Handley | Unfriend social media, it is time to get ‘real’

It reduces interaction to likes and emojis, quantity, not quality, with little distinction made between genuine buds and pure acquaintances

01 Aug 2021 7:33 AM

Since India’s military reform process will be equally intricate, protracted, and even complicated with competing and conflicting demands, claims, issues, and even turf battles that would have to be reconciled, the legislature needs to play a far more pro-active role. Representational Image. (AFP)

Manish Tewari | Does India need theatre commands?

The combatant command President selects needs to have served in at least one joint responsibility role in a senior command position

01 Aug 2021 1:01 AM

The PLA has very few Tibetan soldiers and practically no local officers. (Representational image: AFP)

Claude Arpi | Bid to recruit Tibetans in China PLA may backfire

The PLA also knows well they can’t trust the Tibetans: a word from their Leader in Dharamsala and the troops will desert

31 Jul 2021 7:01 AM

Heartless in UK: Do all victims of trafficking pose a security threat?

The Modern Slavery Act, in line with international legal agreements, extends the State’s protection to all victims of trafficking

31 Jul 2021 6:57 AM

Maharashtra has had the heaviest rain in July in four decades, all within a few days. (Indian Navy/ AFP Photo)

Patralekha Chatterjee | Climate changing swiftly: Adapt before it’s too late

The monsoon has been erratic, with long dry spells broken by cloudbursts that trigger floods and landslides

30 Jul 2021 1:43 AM

Even before the NEP was announced, it had undergone a comprehensive consultation process with all stakeholders that was reflected in the policy. (AFP Photo)

C Raj Kumar | New education panel will help implement NEP more effectively

The NEP captured the collective consciousness of India’s education fraternity

30 Jul 2021 1:32 AM

On July 9, Union home secretary Ajay Kumar Bhalla held a meeting in New Delhi with the chief secretaries of Assam and Mizoram in a bid to resolve the boundary issue between the two states. (Twitter)

Wasbir Hussain | Assam-Mizo firing: Spark behind clash still mystery

The worst violence in recent years along any inter-state border in the Northeast took place within 48 hours of Shah’s meeting in Shillong

29 Jul 2021 2:00 AM

Given the threats, policies addressing conservation of wildlife and nature, and environmental issues must also find an apex position in political agendas. Representational Image (PTI)

Arvind Dharmapuri | Telangana’s tigers: Protecting them crucial to meeting India’s green goals

Let every Indian today, on July 29, the Global Tiger Day, ingeminate the truth that if tigers go extinct, our entire ecosystem will collapse

29 Jul 2021 1:04 AM

In an interview with this newspaper, Jayesh Ranjan, talked about his call to IT employees to return to their offices, and how the IT sector could yet again emerge as the fulcrum on which lives of lakhs of people depended and how they could be turned around for the better.

Let bosses show the way, staff will follow suit, says IT secy

Return to office, not WFH, to save lives: Jayesh Ranjan

28 Jul 2021 5:13 AM

Karnataka strongman and BJP leader B.S. Yediyurappa. (PTI Photo)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | BJP’s K’taka mess lingers: BSY won’t go away quietly

Karnataka strongman and BJP leader B.S. Yediyurappa stepped down on Monday evening as the state’s chief minister after much melodrama

28 Jul 2021 12:33 AM

It is been made clear to the babus in the civil aviation ministry that the divestment of Air India is the top priority of the government this year. (PTI Photo)

Dilip Cherian | With Scindia at helm, Air India’s divestment back in focus

The move surprised many since it is widely believed that Sushil Kumar is a trusted officer of the ED chief

28 Jul 2021 12:25 AM

China’s Premier Li Keqiang has developed an index which measures real GDP growth through three indicators — railway cargo volume, electricity consumption and loans disbursed. Representational Image. (PTI)

Aakar Patel | The middle class is not growing… What does future hold for India?

The government is run like a kingdom and the elected leader does not need to respond to questions or hold press conferences

27 Jul 2021 2:28 AM

Nations can have long memories and diplomacy can become the victim of its past actions. Representational Image. (Twitter)

K C Singh | Taliban’s gains, US exit add to India’s dilemma

The issue was how to balance this policy tweak against India’s long-standing policy of nonalignment for close to half a century

27 Jul 2021 2:07 AM

Japan placed its bid for the 2020 Olympics (now being held in 2021 thanks to the Covid-19 pandemic) five years after China made its dramatic entry onto the world sporting stage playing host to the Beijing Olympics.

Sanjaya Baru | Games nations play: Sport, geopolitics & the Olympics

Hosting them and securing medals has also been about national pride and geopolitics

26 Jul 2021 3:56 AM

Clearly, the various “bans” and other edicts by the Indian government to keep out Chinese-made products in the aftermath of the Galwan attack in June 2020 had no practical effect in the marketplace. Representational Image.

Abhijit Bhattacharyya | India needs to tackle China the way that it treats Indians

Blind or not, Indians appear supinely negligent to the Chinese threat

26 Jul 2021 2:56 AM

It was Roger Federer we wanted to watch but we watched everything that was on offer.

Ranjona Banerji | Keeping score, for the love of tennis and for mother

It was in the 2000s that this love for tennis was reborn to a fulltime obsession and it was Roger Federer who did it

25 Jul 2021 1:09 AM

Pavan K. Varma | Pegashush! It’s ‘another’ international conspiracy

This is precisely what we are seeing in the response of the BJP and the government to the Pegasus saga

25 Jul 2021 1:07 AM

Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra. (PTI Photo)

Anita Katyal | Priyanka comes into her own; Vaishnaw debut underwhelming

It is Priyanka Gandhi Vadra who pitched for Sidhu’s appointment as Punjab Congress chief

25 Jul 2021 1:05 AM

A critic I read years ago said that Shakespeare referred to the image of a foreign invasion by sea in which slings and arrows were being fired from the invading armadas. (Photo: AFP)

Farrukh Dhondy | In UK, linguistic ‘revolutionaries’ try to ‘ban’ those with other views

What the boy is asking himself is should he endure these S and As or should he fight against such opposition or adversity

24 Jul 2021 1:18 AM

Shobhaa De | PK: Can ‘mover-shaker’ pull off a ‘coup’ in 2024?

Prashant Kishor has emerged as a political A-lister pretty recently

24 Jul 2021 1:16 AM

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